Check less to reduce email stress

Wednesday, December 3, 2014 - 16:00 in Psychology & Sociology

Is your inbox burning you out? Then take heart -- research suggests that easing up on email checking can help reduce psychological stress. Some of the study's 124 adults -- including students, financial analysts medical professionals and others -- were instructed to limit checking email to three times daily for a week. Others were told to check email as often as they could (which turned out to be about the same number of times that they normally checked their email prior to the study).

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